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Poetry Books
Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Shirt in Heaven
Book Synopsis "Jean Valentine has a gift for tough strangeness, but also a dreamlike syntax and manner of arranging the lines of . . . short poems so as to draw us into the doubleness and fluency of feelings."The New York Times Book Review Quietly marked by elegy and memory, National Book Award winner Jean Valentine''s thirteenth book is empowered by her signature clear music and compassion. Valentine leads us chronologically from childhood drawings and wartime memories to the present, where she addresses aging and the loss of loved ones. These poems of tender grace reflect on the small histories few ever fully see. Shirt in Heaven Come upon a snapshotof secret you, smiling like FDR, leaning on your crutches come upon letters I thought I''d burned I suppose you''ve got a place with lots of stairs. I''m at the end of something, you''re at the beginning . . . dearest, they told me a surgeon sat downin the hospital morgue, next to your body, & cried.He yelled at the aide to get out. His two sons had been your students.me too, little-knowing Jean Valentine is the current State Poet of New York and author of twelve books of poetry, including Door in the Mountain, which won the National Book Award. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Columbia University, and lives in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City.
£18.05
Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Now Do You Know Where You Are
Book SynopsisNew York Times "100 Notable Books of 2022"NPR "Best Books of 2022"“Levin’s luminous latest reckons with the disorientation of contemporary America. . . . Through the fog of doubt, Levin summons ferocious intellect and musters hard-won clairvoyance.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewDana Levin’s fifth collection is a brave and perceptive companion, walking with the reader through the disorientations of personal and collective transformation. Now Do You Know Where You Are investigates how great change calls the soul out of the old lyric, “to be a messenger―to record whatever wanted to stream through.” Levin works in a variety of forms, calling on beloveds and ancestors, great thinkers and religions―convened by Levin’s own spun-of-light wisdom and intellectual hospitality―balancing clear-eyed forensics of the past with vatic knowledge of the future. “So many bodies a soul has to press through: personal, familial, regional, national, global, planetary, cosmic― // ‘Now do you know where you are?’”
£15.20
Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Late Summer Ode
Book Synopsis "The balance of rigidity, rhyme and ruin . . . makes an Olena Kalytiak Davis poem extraordinarily distinct. Even when she’s alluding to Dante and Rilke and Chekhov, her voice is like no one else’s.”—New York Times, Editors Choice In Late Summer Ode, Olena Kalytiak Davis writes from a heightened state of ambivalence, perched between past and present tensions. With Chekovian humor and metered pathos, from a garden in Anchorage not pining for Brooklyn, these poems “self -protest, -process, -recede.” Davis is a conductor of sound and meaning, precise to the syllable: a commanding talent in contemporary poetry.
£12.34
Copper Canyon Press,U.S. A House Called Tomorrow: 50 Years of Poetry from
Book SynopsisCopper Canyon Press celebrates its first 50 years of poetry publishing in anticipation of the next 50 years.Poetry is vital to language and living. This anthology celebrates 50 years of Copper Canyon Press publications, one extraordinary poem at a time. Since its founding, Copper Canyon has been entirely dedicated to publishing poetry books; here Editor in Chief Michael Wiegers invites press staff and board—past and present—to help curate a retrospective. The result is a collection of beloved poems from books spanning half a century: representing Pulitzer Prize-winning books, debut collections, works in translation, and rare books from Copper Canyon’s early days. This book is a tribute to Copper Canyon poets and readers everywhere, because, as Gregory Orr writes, “Certain poems / In an uncertain world— / The ones we cling to: // They bring us back.”
£17.09
Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Dream Apartment
Book SynopsisIn Dream Apartment, Lisa Olstein builds a world of night-rabbits, bodiless shadows, and networks of wind where ode and elegy meet.Devoted equally to the long arc and the sharp fragment, Lisa Olstein's fifth collection maps the lucid ache at the center of night where darkness stands in/for light, certain heartbreaks never end, and love dovetails with losing. Immersed in ode as much as elegy, Dream Apartment employs a dynamic range of forms. Prayer-like spells cascade down the page with precision and abandon. Arrow-shot elegies explore the shock of suicide and find echoes in other kinds of griefindividual and communal, animal and ecological, sudden and creeping.Agile narratives mirror the dazzling associative movement of unselfconscious thought, the dreaming mind, bodiless memory. Whether watching a stranger carry his dead dog out of a vet's exam room or offering bouquets of peonies to night-foraging rabbits, Dream Apartment is propelled by the way poems, like dreams, unfold new dimensions of time and space. Casting their lines toward wish and repair, recognition and reckoning, these poems reveal how any meditation on loss is an exploration of love, promising that in dreaming, something wakes.
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Passing through a Gate
Book SynopsisAn essential collection of poetry and prose from an award-winning poet who faced some of the greatest dramas of his time in American history.John Balaban is an extraordinary writer and storyteller whose prize-winning poetry and prose are informed by a love of languages, deep scholarship, hard travel, and a willingness to confront the violence and sufferings of the world. In this essential collection of his work, the best of his prize-winning poems since 1970 are collected in one place, threaded through with essays that link poetry to Balaban’s extensive travels, whether hitchhiking throughout the United States or wandering the countryside of Vietnam—during wartime—to record and translate folk poetry. The result is a remarkable story about a life in poetry. Empathetic, truth-telling, and fiercely perceptive, Passing through a Gate is a literary
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Raft
Book SynopsisDelightfully universal, Raft by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ted Kooser travels the Midwest landscape, attuned to life’s shared experiences and emotions—illness, aging, beauty, and love.Raft is our fourth collection of poetry from Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser. Open in his desire to write for the everyday reader, these poems maintain the open-handed and accessible style that thousands have come to love. Yet, deeply imagistic and metaphorically rich, Raft shows us that even the simplest of objects, the simplest of actions, can become a portal. A boy feeding a goldfish becomes a meditation on loneliness. Scraps of gauze open the door to a study on happiness. Both local and delightfully universal, Raft travels the Midwest landscape, attuned to the shared experiences and emotions of life&
£16.14
Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Chronicle of Drifting
Book SynopsisChronicle of Drifting enacts a restless quest for belonging, interweaving dreamlike imagery and Japanese lyricism Yuki Tanaka’s stunning debut, Chronicle of Drifting, explores rootlessness, its beauty and perils. Tanaka’s restless imagination roams among places and personae—a village mermaid, a geisha in the Midwest, a flâneur in Tokyo—searching for a permanent self and a sense of community. In the feverish world of these poems, inspired by the Japanese tradition of tanka and haiku, as well as by timeless surrealism, one meets a light-lashed horse, an imaginary chauffeur, an out-of-business psychic, a girl who skewers a fish with a flower stalk. In poems ranging from lyric to prose, Tanaka creates a poignant dreamlike realm where the inner and outer worlds, the self and others, merge—like the train passenger who, looking out the window and seeing the sky through his reflection, feels “empty, a blue outline.”
£12.34
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. The Secret Garden
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£16.19
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Culture Clash in Americca
£999.99
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. The Detroit Project
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£18.69
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. Ivanov
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Christian Publishers LLC Two Voices: 54 Duet Scenes for Teens
Book SynopsisFinally -- a collection of duologues from the best-selling author of Winning Monologs for Young Actors and her granddaughter. These humorous and thoughtful scenes present distinctive viewpoints on issues meant to provoke and inspire discussion as well as to entertain. Most roles can be played by either gender. The short length of each duologue makes it easy for students to memorize their lines. Sample titles include How Not to Get a Job, Cutesy-Wutesy Doggie-Woggie, The Alibi, My Rotten Roommate, Prince Not-So-Charming, The Tooth Fairy Conspiracy, Mall Survey, Hair Salon Gossip, That''s How Rumors Start, Backstage Pass, and Goody, Two Shoes. Fifty-four scenes in all. For use in a wide variety of settings, from speech contests and auditions to acting practice or comedy revue shows. A valuable resource for teachers and theatre libraries.
£17.09
Ivan R Dee, Inc The Marriage of Figaro
Book SynopsisSensual gaiety is at the heart of this comic masterpiece which continues the merry tale of the little barber of Seville, a clever common man whose wits overcome his superiors who would suppress him. In paring down the number of players, presenting the scenes more economically, and offering a translation that removes archaic phrasing, Mr. Sahlins delivers a script that can be comfortably staged by present-day theatres.Trade ReviewSahlins' 'speakable' version of the play sacrifices little of its spirit or of the pointed class distinctions of the French court of its time. * Booklist *
£10.63
Ivan R Dee, Inc The Trojan Women
Book SynopsisAs bleak and agonizing a portrait of war as ever to appear on stage, The Trojan Women is a masterpiece of pathos as well as a timeless and chilling indictment of war’s brutality. The only justice in war, Euripides seems to say, is punitive and nihilistic. Nicholas Rudall’s compelling new translation continues his acclaimed work in interpreting classical drama for today’s audiences.Trade ReviewA new translation of a literary classic of pathos and war, capturing the classical drama in a new form designed as a play for performing to modern audiences. * Bookwatch *
£7.59
Coffee House Press Not Here
Book SynopsisNot Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American body in confrontation with whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia; and a big beating heart of a book. Nguyen's poems ache with loneliness and desire and the giddy terrors of allowing yourself to hope for love, and revel in moments of connection achieved.
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Coffee House Press Safe Houses I Have Known
Book SynopsisAs a child during the height of the Cold War, Steve Healey learns that his father is a spy for the CIA. Beneath the banality of everyday life—the suburbs of Washington, DC; school and play; his parents’ deteriorating marriage—assumed names, parallel lives, and myriad Cold War menaces linger. Drawing from CIA training manuals and pop culture references alike, Healey’s poetry is both intimate and claustrophobic. In these poems, the natural anxiety of childhood is compounded by the weight of both national and family secrets, and Healey draws deep parallels between the shaky foundations of truth in his past and the paranoia and obfuscation that envelops our nation’s present.Trade Review“Pairing formal poetic lines with conceptually driven fragments, Healey carves a space for innovation within received forms. By blending personal narrative and found language, he evokes, and reverses, the power dynamics implicit in surveillance.” —Publishers Weekly“Through clever wordplay, Safe Houses I Have Known aptly conjures the terror of a world where everyone watches everyone.” —Shelf Awareness“Poems are immediate. They bring human reality to code words, clandestine terminology, ruse and deception . . . Throughout we discover Healey's superlative skill in conveying emotion through poetry.”” —Decatur Daily “With skillfully rendered domestic detail and tension, Steve Healey’s Safe Houses I Have Known discloses that there is scant buffer between civilian life and espionage. Rupture, as documented here, is silent—from private childhood shame, muted haiku of cartoon violence, to critical erasures of CIA interrogation protocols. Through such uneasy quiet, Healey’s chilling collection confides that conflict is intimate, no matter how much language a global superpower encodes to insist otherwise.” —Douglas Kearney “Steve Healey’s an N of 1: a poet whose father was a spy for the CIA. He’s written a wonderful book that gets at the nature and difficulty of trust—not just a son’s trust in his spy pops or in a family broken up by secrecy, but in the self when we know our bodies let us down, in the other when love is often fraught and contingent. Healey goes at the complexity of our attachments with a style and verve that pushes against the burden of the material: what is weighty is also buoyant in poems that jump and swerve thanks to the playfulness of his mind and language. If trust is an issue here, by infusing new life into whatever they touch, Healey’s poems are also embodiments of faith in the transformative and unifying qualities of art.” —Bob Hicok “Steve Healey’s brilliant Safe Houses I Have Known is a riveting, unsparing account of his particular familial experience: having a father who was a CIA spy. The fractious effects of the family secret (revealed to Healey in early adolescence but felt throughout childhood) become our commonality. Through scrupulous intelligence, dark wit, and his generous yet wily imagination, Healey lays bare the disassociation and guilt of our complicity in our country’s practices of self-surveillance, military coups, lies, and deceit. Through his command of poetic forms and his mash-ups of CIA training manuals, icons of a childhood’s innocence—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, the board game Clue, Geppetto—all become ‘an eerie meaninglessness.’ It shows that the Cold War was never over, rendering us all famous and afraid. Such a clear-eyed portrait is rare, as is the presence of both horror and love. Though I felt the recognition of Healey’s warning to us and to our country—‘it is safer not to finish anything’—I couldn’t put this book down.” —Gillian ConoleyPraise for Steve Healey “Steve Healey blends the sharp and the sad in such a moving way in this stunning second book, but it’s at the level of the phrase, and behind that, at the level of the idea, that something really extraordinary is going on—Healey’s perspective constantly reinvents itself in striking ways. Though these poems are rangy, Healey nonetheless keeps each one focused on a single theme, which is, in turn, a facet of an elaborate mirror that shows us ourselves, our difficulty, and our promise, refracted through an unremittingly honest world—‘Not a day ends without the sun totally surrendering.’ Brilliant and deeply moving.” —Cole Swensen “Steve Healey’s dazzling first book of poems, Earthling, will leave you reeling. Poem after poem, bold imagination coupled with intense passion sets this book ablaze. His very unique sense of humor adds to the delight.” —James Tate “These poems are so enlivened they seem to have yeast in them. In every one, the consequences of a single thought or action expand to the ends of the alphabet. They talk right at you as if there were no tomorrow, but in the best of all possible finales, decide that there is.” —Mary Ruefle “Despite the national craze for self-expression that poetry has become, it is harder than ever to hear an original voice; but here one is and it’s a doozy. Somehow Steve Healey has figured out a way to get a new sound out of the saxophone of English. Loopy, smart, eyebrow-raising, wiggy, and wildly entertaining belong in the string of modifiers that would try to describe this poet’s amazing voice.” —Billy Collins “This is a powerful book, a great book of urgent knowledge. What art does when it tells us awful things in ways so beautifully made creates a rip in our spirit where deeper and real truth can get in. Healey brings together children’s games, survival tactics, reports of war, reports of violence on the Mississippi River, various instances of hide-and-seek, tensions between hunter and prey, in language tuned up to exquisitely arresting and inevitable wavelengths. I love 10 Mississippi.” —Dara Wier “Comically obsessive, meditative in wonderfully askew ways, Healey’s poems signal the melding of a frisky poetics with a weighted consciousness of peril: political, environmental, personal. Explorative of an often hostile, chaotic yet exquisite and wounded world, with a matter-of-fact authority that leads sometimes to the miraculous, sometimes the absurd, sometimes stark truths, 10 Mississippi delights with the buoyancy of invention and scares with ‘the law, the final black / that comes after dusk.’ Reader, prepare for your training wheels to fall off.” —Dean Young “10 Mississippi reveals the sometimes ugly, sometimes beautiful truth of our daily lives. Healey offers us our shining memories of childhood innocence, and then, just as earnestly, the abrupt but enduring realization that life will never again be so easy.” —Verse Wiconsin “10 Mississippi is a startlingly rich and absorbing read that also stakes a claim to big ideas, and does so using the sort of simple yet endlessly inventive metrics equally familiar to precocious children and the very best poets of our times. Highly recommended.” —Huff Post Books
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Coffee House Press Things to Do in Hell
Book SynopsisJoin Chris Martin for a poetic walking tour of hell—or is it heaven? In this wickedly clever collection, Martin asks how we go about living in the tension between protesting lunatic politicians and picking up the kids from school, mourning a dying Earth and making soup, combating white supremacy and loving our dear ones. Martin’s poems pick at the tender scabs protecting our national and individual identities, and call for more honest healing. Things to Do in Hell channels 2016 anger into 2020 action with sophisticated, rhythmic verse that compels us to beat our swords into ploughshares and join the fight.Trade Review“Masterful, breathless, and prescient, Chris Martin’s fourth poetry collection, Things to Do in Hell, is both antidote and screed, reliquary and reckoning. In this diatomic opus exhuming the most intimate aspects of our human[e]-ness, Martin probes capitalism, toxic masculinity, fatherhood, and whiteness to inventory the disasters and desires that have fueled our perilous consumption toward impending collapse. And yet there is hope—for love endures. Retooling language like molten metal—letting its fire snake then seethe into new realms of syntax and meaning—this poet at the height of his powers reimagines a deliberate, unflinching future ensconced in wisdom and tenderness from ‘the circle whose center is everywhere.’ There’s no turning back.” —Su Hwang “Chris Martin’s poems in Things to Do in Hell are like people grabbing anything they can find and beating it until a new, found music comes forth. Isn’t that what we do these days when the humdrum of flogged, dead horses is not enough to awaken us? Cacophonous raps full of improvisation, these meditations ricochet somewhere between Rimbaud, Huidobro, Stein, and Borzutzky, expanding and contracting in their syntactical agitation, unraveling and unpeeling, since ‘I don’t care I’m going to love you until my name reverts to a word.’ Hell is Earth, these poems seem to proclaim, inside the mind, inside the television, within the simulacrum, through language itself: ‘All day clinging to ghastly seaweed on the naked internet ocean.’ Where does one find meaning when meaning is tired of us? What can the ‘difficult words / in the crowded mouth of hope’ even teach us ‘if everything’s a mouth’? Things to Do in Hell brings all these contradictions together, suggesting that even if all we have in the end is our restless inquisitiveness, we take it and we run!” —Roy Guzmán “The opening incantation to Chris Martin’s new collection causes a tear in the very fabric of our ritualized quotidian. Lyrical disruptions shock the imperatives as the speakers in the poems pursue the ordinary in a miraculous time. But the miraculous resides within the uncertainty of our contemporary state of being, humming in the low thrum of background noise. In singing and singeing lines, Martin critiques and adores. The multitudinous riches presented in this engaging book are vast and stretch deep into our psyches. Pleasure is a deep and syncopated virtue in Things to Do in Hell, while the wisdom of this collection provides a constant and needed nudge.” —Oliver de la Paz Praise for The Falling Down Dance: “To read The Falling Down Dance from cover to cover—and it’s best read that way—is also to see a dad start separate and strive for connection, catching the baby when he falls down, or feeling like a welcome but slightly distant addition to a maternal dyad. . . . Martin makes the clearest example for the new American poetry of fatherhood.” —Boston Review “Martin’s poems traverse expansive concepts while confined to the space of an apartment, where new parents in ‘the shipwreck / of fatherhood, of motherhood’ are cloistered during a brutal winter.” —Star Tribune “In this spare, poignant collection, Martin invites readers into the microcosm of new fatherhood against a wintry backdrop that produces isolation and intimacy in turn. . . . Martin encourages his readers to see parenthood in all its contradictions; the beautiful addition and the nexus of complication.” —Publishers Weekly “Martin’s attention is tender, even when it is dark. In the end, though, [The Falling Down Dance] is a book that closes in on domestic moments, moments of the physical body’s experiences, and these attentions manage to feel somehow profoundly political. For what is more political than the effort to create a space of love?” —FIELD “The Falling Down Dance is a book of poetry so tenderly, playfully, and, often, still, sorrowfully in tune with the modern world. Ranging from Frank Ocean to fatherhood, from modern love to modern sadness, Martin’s poems tilt and turn down the page, full of dance and momentum. . . . The Falling Down Dance is a pulsing joy of a book. It feels so full, its slim lines bursting at the edges, trying to get out.” —Full Stop
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Coffee House Press The Wet Hex
Book SynopsisSun Yung Shin calls her readers into the unknown now-future of the human species, an underworld museum of births, deaths, evolutions, and extinctions.Personal and environmental violations form the backdrop against which Sun Yung Shin examines questions of grievability, violence, and responsibility in The Wet Hex. Incorporating sources such as her own archival immigration documents, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Christopher Columbus’s journals, and traditional Korean burial rituals, Shin explores the ways that lives are weighed and bartered. Smashing the hierarchies of god and humanity, heaven and hell, in favor of indigenous Korean shamanism and animism, The Wet Hex layers an apocalyptic revision of nineteenth-century imagery of the sublime over the present, conjuring a reality at once beautiful and terrible.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2023 Midland Authors Award for PoetryFinalist for the 2023 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry“Revelatory. . . . Formally inventive. . . . These poems also project us into the future, using the past as a resource to create materials for survival.” —Elizabeth Hoover, Star Tribune “Enthralling and fantastical. . . . [Shin] begs us to consider what equality looks like for all living things and how that might include the dead, engaging the spiritual, the mythical, and the animal world. While reaching into a variety of realms, from shamanism and funerary rites to the climate crisis and the inheritance of language, Shin’s writing is tight and seamless.” —Katya Buresh, BOMB Magazine “There are many marvels to unpack in The Wet Hex. . . . Shin’s lines glimmer and pop as they scrutinize the passage of time and the importance of legacy.” —Diego Báez, Poetry Foundation“The Wet Hex, born out of the frugal feline year of Korean myths, modernizes and bewitches us with her transfixed vertical, etymological discourse on everything beguiling: fate, moth, white, shaman, casket, box, moon, flower, death. ‘Grief is a heated iron comb,’ which Sun Yung Shin uses to biblically curl your pelagic feline form into gaze, debt, heritage, and threshold. Sun Yung Shin is an enchantress. Sun Yung Shin is oil, resin, feather. Sun Yung Shin is a lexical, chthonic tiger, enraptured specimen of poetic inheritance, roaring from her Minnesota wilderness into the uninhabited, forgiving, concerted retelling of Baridegi’s heroism. Her spellbound language takes us through the hypnotic collaborative corridor between her sequential text and Jinny Yu drawings and profoundly translates its gender muteness into ‘bark, seed, root, horn, organ, petal, oil, tea, tincture,’ obedient materials of healing and transformation. The Wet Hex opens like a mountain, closes its glory with ‘eros of self-sufficiency,’ and is capable of turning the barren woman in you into a virgin or two stones.” —Vi Khi Nao“The Wet Hex is a worthy monument to this Holocene Epoch. Using images, allusions, and truths that are mystical, metaphorical, empirical, and personal, Sun Yung Shin prevails here as a daughter, and as a mother; these poems transcend our earthly realm like shadow children. Shin is a writer of profound skill and authentic presence. The Wet Hex is canorous, masterful, and utterly unique. It builds on her stellar body of work to advance what's possible in poetry and art.” —Michael Kleber-Diggs“Drop everything! Sun Yung Shin’s new book has arrived: a rich biomythography, a feminist epic, a pilgrimage to the underworld. With tigers, wolves, lost ancestors, and sky, she stages encounters with death, afterbirth and afterlife, haunting/hunting. Who is the animal? What does the orphan dream? How does an abandoned princess raise the dead? Read these poems to find out. Here spells are cast. The hex drips wet. The castaways come home.” —Gabrielle Civil“The Wet Hex is a brilliant achievement seeking liberation for girls, women, orphans, and castaways. The poems interrogate violence in a haunting, gorgeous spell of lyric alchemy that only Sun Yung Shin can create. Shin ‘let[s] the wolves out of [her] mouth’ and charts a map for ‘the fallen, the wandering, the abandoned.’ Once again, she proves that she is a poet ahead of the curve, an intellectual and innovative wonder. This is one of my favorite poets. This is the most powerful book of poems I’ve read in years.” —Lee HerrickPraise for Unbearable Splendor:Winner of the 2017 Minnesota Book Award for PoetryFinalist for the 2017 PEN America Poetry Award“The splendor on display in Shin’s book consists of an incredibly compact use of commanding and vibrant language, which coheres into work that feels restless and deft, as cerebral as it is emotional.” —Los Angeles Review of Books“Like a lean, mean, efficient literary machine, Sun Yung Shin’s Unbearable Splendor uses its hybrid nature to arrive on bookshelves as something very true, heartbreaking, and, ultimately, unbearably human.” —Chicago Review of Books “One of the primary concerns of this book is the self; paradoxically, Sun Yung Shin is able to explore this theme with both a microscope and a telescope, and the result is a heady, multidimensional and multi-textured read.” —The Corresponder“It is a blessing that Sun Yung Shin has written a great deal of sound into Unbearable Splendor, because we have not heard or seen or read anything like this before, a truly unique, essential, and original collection.” —NewPages“These constant reminders of surreal wonderment do their work like little ice picks, chipping away at the grand event of colonized hurt. The results are small, perceptible feelings you could almost hold in your hand.” —Waxwing“As a book, Unbearable Splendor works on multiple levels. On perhaps its most obvious, superficial level, it’s a text full of beautiful, haunting, lyrical language and interconnected themes that wind in and out of each other to weave a coherent fabric of many strands. Under that surface, though, lives a veritable dissertation (with plenty of angles that the reader can research) on otherness and transgression, and in turn, on how what or who that is other, or what or who that transgresses, problematizes the existence of the one who observes.” —Drunken Boat“In poems traversing that canny valley between verse and prose, Shin draws on cinema, technology, mythology, sci fi, autobiography and folklore to unlock the titular emotion: the unbearableness of the labyrinth, the splendor of being a machine—a hybrid, a replicant, an orphan.” —The Rumpus“From this investigation of cloning, cyborgs, surrogacy, and adoption, Shin weaves a narrative of language and history that represents a striking new way of understanding identity.” —Lantern Review“In a striking interweaving of poetry and essay, etymologies brush up against adoption certificates, and quotations jostle with myths. . . . Shin’s resistance to offering a definitive answer allows her to make connections that are sometimes dizzying, often lyrical, and always thought provoking.” —The Missing Slate“Sun Yung Shin’s explorations are honest and unrestrained and show an enormous amount of skill. In spite of the gravity of the issues at hand, Unbearable Splendor comes from a writer at play, and she never lets us forget how much pleasure there is to be found in language.” —Front Porch Journal“[Unbearable Splendor] is a project of reclamation of one’s own humanity.” —Jacket2“While unabashedly scholarly, Unbearable Splendor is heartbreaking.” —Star Tribune“Shin’s poetry is as cerebral as it is beautiful, exploring the personal experiences of race, immigration, and gender alongside academic investigations of religion and science, philosophy and art.” —Bustle“In Sun Yung Shin’s gifted hands, cyborgs become the mechanism by which to examine the self, humanity, and the individual’s place in an automated world.” —Signature“At once sensual, philosophical, mind-bending in its juxtapositions, Shin’s exploration of what we take for granted—bodies, labels, time, and what it means to be human—crosses many intellectual landscapes at once. . . . Unbearable Splendor is a liminal book, but one that invites the reader to cross all its boundaries.” —International Examiner“Unlike your more ‘vanilla’ essay collections, this work uses poetic building blocks to slowly reveal the existentialist heart, a very impressive result as the personal connection is palpable.” —Messenger’s Booker“I’ve long thought that Sun Yung Shin is writing some of the most powerful poetry around.” —Eileen Verbs Books“To graph the immigrant, the exile and ‘pseudo-exile,’ as ‘a kind of star.’ To perform childhood. ‘Descent upon descent.’ To write on ‘[p]aper soaked in milk.’ Unbearable Splendor is a book like this, that is this: the opposite or near-far of home. What is the difference between a guest and a ghost? What will you feed them in turn? I was profoundly moved by the questions and deep bits of feeling in this gorgeous, sensing work, and am honored to write in support of its extraordinary and brilliant writer, Sun Yung Shin.” —Bhanu Kapil“In Unbearable Splendor, Sun Yung Shin sticks a pin directly into the heart of who we are to reveal that a person is a mystery without beginning or end, borders or documents, complicated by robotics and astrophysics, arrivals and departures, myth and rewriting. A person is divided into multiple, complicated selves, as various and complex as the forms and approaches she employs in these poetic essays. To read Shin’s work is to marvel at a rosebud’s concealed and silent core and to slowly witness its elegant blooming. It is a delicate and majestic show.” —Jenny Boully“Unbearable Splendor is a dazzling collage of biophysical metamorphoses, wherein the ‘I’ atomizes into multiple and self-replicating new mythologies of what constitutes an authentic being. ‘I didn’t know I wasn’t human. My past was invented, implanted, and accepted. I’m more real than you are because I know I’m not real.’ In our vast expanse, where ‘every species is transitional,’ Shin’s lyricism, erudition, and tonal command of loss and indignation harmonize into a singular nucleus that hums and pulsates through each of these wondrous poetic meditations.” —Ed Bok Lee“Into the fertile and ever-growing landscape of essay-poem hybrids comes Sun Yung Shin’s striking exploration of identity, imitation, and home. From the uncanny valley to the minotaur’s labyrinth, Shin brings an unflagging intelligence and tremendous formal dexterity to bear on what makes us human and what makes us monstrous—we so often fall somewhere in between.” —Mairead Small Staid, Literati Bookstore“In examining her own search of identity, Shin masterfully uses the likes of Antigone, Korean history, cyborgs, black holes, clones to bridge this ‘Uncanny Valley.’ This is brilliantly done and is often as mind-bending as it is heart-wrenching.” —Unabridged Bookstore“Like a dream intent on processing one’s daily struggles in the most abstract of ways, Unbearable Splendor kneads and stretches the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, realism and SF, with the experience of a Korean orphan-turned-American immigrant being central to the experiment.” —Strange Horizons
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Coffee House Press The Collected Poems of Anselm Hollo
Book SynopsisWry and witty poems from an avant-garde great, collected in one volume for the first time. The Collected Poems of Anselm Hollo gathers over five decades of the poet’s multifaceted work into one elegant volume. All of Hollo’s trademark humor, wisdom, and charm is on display here for students and fans of contemporary poetry. Warm, insightful, and delightfully observant, this comprehensive collection from the author of over forty books serves as a reminder that poetry isn’t just an aspiration or avocation, but a way of life.Trade Review“In this posthumous trove of brief, zestful poems, Hollo . . . relates the ‘incredible onslaught of being,’ seemingly dashing off each of these frenetic, fragmented vignettes in a fit of wild gusto.” —Publishers Weekly “Hollo’s poems are, for the most part, gentle and sweet and self-effacing, and they often display a restraint that allows the circumstances of the world to unfold naturally.” —Heavy Feather Review “The bedrock solidness of Anselm Hollo’s poems makes as ever a place of refuge and delight in these meager times. Thank god for his humor, else we’d all be dead.” —Robert Creeley “Don’t miss anything at all by this strong poet.” —Library Journal “Post-hipster wit and lyricist Anselm Hollo has always had the world’s lightest touch when it comes to balancing a poem on the invisible wire between sentimental openness and ironic judgment.” —San Francisco Chronicle
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Coffee House PR Very Collected Poems
Book SynopsisOver sixty years of poems celebrating one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth and twenty-first century American poetry.Gathering a lifetime of poetry, Ron Padgett’s Very Collected Poems is the ultimate record of the Pulitzer Prize finalist’s oeuvre—newly updated since the sold-out first edition of 2013. Padgett’s poems reverberate with his love of poetry, his musings on artists and musicians from Andrew Marvell to Woody Guthrie to his personal friendships with Kenneth Koch and Joe Brainard, alongside his poems involving family and the magic of just being alive. By turns imaginative and witty, and then simple and direct, Padgett’s mercurial work offers readers the pleasure of his surprising curiosity and generous spirit.
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Red Sea Press,U.S. The Woodstock Sandal And Further Steps
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Milkweed Editions The Clearing: Poems
Book SynopsisFinalist for the 2021 Housatonic Book Award in Poetry Winner of the 2019 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Clearing is “a lush, lyrical book about a world where women are meant to carry things to safety and men leave decisively” (Henri Cole). Luminous and electric from the first line to the last, Allison Adair’s debut collection navigates the ever-shifting poles of violence and vulnerability with a singular incisiveness and a rich imagination. The women in these poems live in places that have been excavated for gold and precious ores, and they understand the nature of being hollowed out. From the midst of the Civil War to our current era, Adair charts fairy tales that are painfully familiar, never forgetting that violence is often accompanied by tenderness. Here we wonder, “What if this time instead of crumbs the girl drops / teeth, her own, what else does she have”? The Clearing knows the dirt beneath our nails, both alone and as a country, and pries it gently loose until we remember something of who we are, “from before…from a similar injury or kiss.” There is a dark beauty in this work, and Adair is a skilled stenographer of the silences around which we orbit. Described by Henri Cole as “haunting and dirt caked,” her unromantic poems of girlhood, nature, and family linger with an uncommon, unsettling resonance.
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Milkweed Editions The Wanting Way: Poems
Book SynopsisIn The Wanting Way, the second book in Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent—Adam Wolfond proves more than willing to “extend the choreography.”In fact, his entire thrust is out and toward. Each poem moves out along its own underutilized pathway, awakening unseen dimensions for the reader like a wooded night walk suddenly lit by fireflies. And as each path elaborates itself, Wolfond’s guiding hand seems always to stay held out to the reader, inviting them further into a shared and unprecedented unfolding. The Wanting Way is actually a confluence of diverse ways—rallies, paths, waves, jams, streams, desire lines—that converge wherever the dry verbiage of the talking world requires hydration. Each poem is an invitation to bathe in the play of languaging. And each poem is an invitation to a dance that’s already happening, called into motion by the objects and atmospheres of a more-than-human world. Wolfond makes space for new poetics, new choreographies, and new possibilities toward forging a consensual—felt and feeling—world where we might find free disassembly and assembly together. There is a neurodivergent universe within this one, and Wolfond’s poems continuously pull back the unnecessary veil between human and nature. Trade ReviewPraise for The Wanting Way“As a nonspeaking autistic artist, prose writer and poet, Wolfond uses language as an invitation to witness and engage where evanescence arises from multiplicity, not uniformity and convention.”—Victoria Chang, New York Times Magazine“The second book in Multiverse, a series written by the neurodivergent Wolfond, probes the relationships between humanity and nature.”—Publishers Weekly "[In The Wanting Way] the poet is communicating bidirectionally and multidirectionality. In these ways, Wolfond’s apparently sought-after relationship with his eager readers makes for a mingling of both his own reflections and what might be bestowed to and shared with us through his musics and often whimsical while serious counsel."—Diane R. Wiener, Wordgathering“Wolfond’s poems are tender-hearted evocations… he has demonstrated that all language, and all true poetry, is an invisible architecture within which we can all conduct our lives with a quiet grace and a humble charm.”—Donald Brackett, Critics at Large“Adam Wolfond’s astonishing work maps and annotates the interior spaces in lyric intensity. In poems that glide, posit, and sing, we hear how the body, attuned to ‘the trees . . . languaging,’ constructs art. It is here where we are taught to understand multiple knowledges and registers in the choir of what’s possible. These are extraordinary poems.”—Oliver de la Paz“way making, way finding – when thinking and feeling alongside Wolfond’s poems, the verbs approach holding hands – ‘bathing talking feeling / and seeing that immerses / everything’ – to be avowedly from and for ‘autistic greatness’ – to be given in trust to ‘the important copilots in the / atmosphere of moving things’ – which is to say – to be given in an invitation to yes – where yes ‘is always with love / and not the way of force’ – an invitation ‘to question the consent / and not the disabled person’ – is an invitation, also, for every type of mind to abandon its type –”—Farid Matuk“Through words full of musicality Adam advocates for his right to be himself, demanding that his very way of existing in the world be respected. The comparisons, analogies, and metaphors in his poems give us a colorful imagery of a body in constant movement, the synesthetic experience of a mind full of colorful sounds and feelings. Adam invites ‘talkers’ to quietly listen to his nonspeaking language, telling us of a direct line between his brain and his body, his body and his language. By wanting to really want to listen, we can learn the language of his movements.”— Amy Sequenzia“Resonant across these exquisite poems is a wanting that moves across a ‘talking without words,’ ‘because the body is a wanting thing pacing the environment.’ Wanting, 111 times, carried by and in the world, a movement not strictly voluntary but fiercely relational, a want not for ‘me,’ not for all ‘I’ can do, but for the facilitation of a languaging in assembly, a languaging wildly neurodiverse in its ‘talking feeling and seeing.’ The wanting question in The Wanting Way pulses across this collection, cutting as it traces new ways of moving in the living.”—Erin Manning Praise for Adam Wolfond“Wolfond’s poems masterfully extend the choreography to include many kinds of thought-motion, inviting the reader to move with and through navigations of language, time, and space. With surprising syntax that spurs surprising thought, language drifts and reforms like the water that runs through so many of Wolfond’s poems, as the non-talking speaker is continuously planting, growing, and consuming language. . . . Wolfond’s poems remind me that even for ‘the open / thinker who / feels too much,’ uncontainment, or porousness, can also be expansive—throwing open the door to tall ideas, to expert movement, to watering thoughts like rain.”—Lauren RussellTable of ContentsThe Ways of Yearning In Way of Music Water Answers I Am the Pace of My Body and Not Language The Language of Lasting A Landing Always Answers I Plant Watered Words A Typology of Water I Am Eating Language All the Time Algo Rhythm 1 Rushing To Think Answers Is to Autism Tangled Answers Toward Questions Other Than What Is Autism The Maker of Wanting Space Tic and Tap The Walls Are Never Still Ticcing the Assembly Tall Ideas Mainly I Saturate Algo Rhythm 2 The Important Walks for Time I Am Able to Scatter Too Music Peel Arranging the Water Roaming the Forest of Eager Talking Algo Rhythm 4 I Want to Tic and Stick Not Study Ramming Questions About Amazing Autism I Lose Myself in the Sticks The Way of the Stick Is the Open Man Who Laughs at Money I Am Erased Music Smells like Candy Reading My Body I Am Collected Algo Rhythm 6 Towards the Assembly Owl Monkey vs. the Assembly The Thinking Objects Do The Maker The State of the World Isolation Song of Love Calm-Arriving to a Wanting Safe World Open Dancing Wants Easy Rally The Way of the Walk Algo Rhythm 7 The Wanting Silence Yes Go Pale Things to the Easy Feel I Am The Hall of Things I Am the Question Assembly Land in the Glass House Is the Always View of the World Is the Easy Way of Seeing and I Am the Talking Glass of the Autistic Pace Talk to the Glass Face of the Autistic Man Easy Congregation Owls Easy on the Ways of Language Algo Rhythm 8 Do you want to / easy want to / think about the way I feel today? The Way of Making Wanting Sentences the Way I Go Like the Things I Am Seeing The Talking Without Words Is the Walking with Feeling Meeting the Feeling The Middle in the World Notes Toward a Resting Beckon Algo Rhythm 10 Yarn Water Strand towards the treatise towards impossibles How Is the Weather Pacing the Thinking Language with Me and Write Landings of Parole Another Dream of Wanting Justice Ways / Waves / Ways / Waves / Ways Bathing Snakes Algo Rhythm 14 The Beauty of Autistic Knowing Walking the CAMH (Centre for Addictions and Mental Health) Wall The Thinking Waves and the Riddle The Game of Space and the Weight of Wanting Words Dance in the Pace Yes I Ache to Answer the Call (a manifesto of yes) Human Book of Walking Algo Rhythm 15 Bringing the Rallying Feeling Together Good Instigation The Name for it Should Be Mursted Chill Freely Theaters In the Time Body Together Eros of Bathing Stimming Dancing Pacing Ways of Neurodivergent Time The Ripples Are Ongoing Acts
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Milkweed Editions The End of Childhood
Book SynopsisA tender and provocative collection of poems interrogating the troubles and wonders of childhood and parentage against the backdrop of global violence.From the accomplished and tenacious poet Wayne Miller comes a collection examining how an individual’s story both hues to and defies larger socio-political narratives and the sweep of history. A cubist making World War I camouflage, a forlorn panel on the ethics of violence in literature, an obsessive litany of “late capitalism” routines, a military drone pilot driving home—here, the awkward, the sweet, and the disturbing often merge. And underlaying it all is Miller’s own domestic life and two children, who highlight the hopeful and ingenious aspects of childhood, which endures “not // as I had thought / the thicket of light back at the entrance // but the wind still blowing / invisibly toward me / through it.” Wayne Miller’s sixth collection of poems is his most intimate, juxtaposing his fraught youth with his children''s cautiously safer one, against insurrection and pandemic, vacation and vocation, art and war. This piercing book spares nothing and no one in searching out a measure of personal truth and benevolence in today’s turbulent, brutalizing world, confronted by a singularly candid and lyrical voice.
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Hampton Roads Publishing Co Rumi, Day by Day
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Surrey Books,U.S. Six Plays
Book SynopsisThis anthology features six plays by celebrated Chicago playwright Mickle Maher, who has been described by the Houston Chronicle as “one of the most original voices in American theater today,” and by the Chicago Reader as “a master at creating complex, paradoxical works that encompass their own contradictions.” Maher’s plays engage classic literature as a jumping off point for seriously unusual comedic dramas, often dealing with the absurdity, difficulties, and rewards of artistic endeavor. His work has been influenced by or compared to Eugène Ionesco, Maria Irene Fornes, Kenneth Koch, and Edward Albee, among others. This edition is designed to be useful for schools and other organizations that wish to mount productions of Maher’s plays, which generally feature small casts and simple scenery and stagings, and thus can be easy to produce. Production rights for any of these six plays can be requested from the publisher. The anthology includes: An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on This His Final Evening On the night Faustus concludes his bargain with Mephistopheles, he apologizes to a group of random people for his failure to keep a diary of his fabulous life. The Hunchback Variations Ludwig von Beethoven and Quasimodo present a panel discussion on their failure to create an impossible sound called for in a stage direction in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. Spirits to Enforce Twelve telefundraisers with secret identities work to raise money for a superheroic production of The Tempest in a bid to save Fathomtown from Professor Cannibal and his band of evil doers. There Is a Happiness That Morning Is Having engaged the evening before in a highly inappropriate display of public affection on the main lawn of their rural New England campus, two lecturers on the poems of William Blake must now, in class, either apologize for their behavior or effectively justify it to keep their jobs. Song About Himself In a dystopian future, a woman made extraordinary by her ability to speak relatively clearly tries to connect with others on a mysterious social media site created by a rogue artificial intelligence. It Is Magic Deb and Sandy are auditioning Tim for the role of the Wolf in a production of The Three Little Pigs, but there’s a mysterious haze in the basement of the Mortier Civic Playhouse and that, in addition to interruptions from the director of the Scottish play that’s going on upstairs, is making things difficult. Then, Liz shows up and throws the whole room into (further) chaos. It Is Magic reveals the deep, ancient evil at the heart of the community theater audition process.Trade ReviewPraise for Mickle Maher’s There Is a Happiness That Morning Is: “Masterful. .. this is what theater is supposed to be.” —Houston Press “Savagely funny… Maher’s ‘There Is a Happiness That Morning Is’ is a joy, an unexpectedly raucous celebration of art and ardor—and public sex.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer “Delightfully original… If you prize imagination, intelligence and genuine passion, you’ll be on cloud nine through all 90 minutes of this utterly unpredictable experience… With its grace, wit and profusion of clever rhymes, the language alone is reason enough to attend… There is an exhilaration that true inspiration brings—and that’s exactly the high delivered by There Is a Happiness That Morning Is.” —Houston Chronicle “Maher’s most powerful play to date…soul shaking.” —Chicago Reader “An enjoyably lunatic endeavor.” —Chicago Tribune “A bizarre, brilliant play that is capable of reordering your brain a bit.” —Austin Chronicle “Consistently and thrillingly entertaining.” —Cleveland Scene “90 witty and entertaining minutes of poetic and comic bliss.” —Cleveland Jewish News “Almost endlessly engaging and frequently hilarious.” —Time Out Chicago “Riveting and wonderfully ridiculous.” —News-Herald “Funny, witty, literate, and profound.” —Windy City Times “Fun, stark, strange, and ridiculous.” —Broadway World Praise for Mickle Maher’s Spirits to Enforce: “Mesmerizing… the stuff that great theater is made of.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “Entrancing…beguiling…the play is like a dance, a 90-minute linguistic ballet… a rollicking, cerebral delight.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer “Hilarious, layered, well-executed—the show leaves you feeling fuller than when you walked in.” —Austin Chronicle “A dazzling algebra of memory, identity, and the fluid but fixing cruelty of time.” “Highly Recommended/Critic’s Choice” —Chicago Reader “Highly entertaining and thoroughly imaginative.” —The Shakespeare Review “Enters a language-rich dream world that draws inspiration from comic-book morality tales, Shakespeare, and from the great globe itself…once the revels are ended, you feel like something earth-shattering has taken place.” —Milwaukee Magazine “Delightfully unconventional… With Spirits to Enforce (Maher) mixes the most unlikely elements into an enthralling show that’s absurd, funny, and touching.” —Chicago Free Press “This show is amazing! It’s like ‘The Tempest’ fell into a vat of toxic waste and now has the power to make us laugh…really hard.” —Chicago Theater Beat Praise for Mickle Maher’s The Hunchback Variations: “Theater Oobleck playwright Mickle Maher is a master at creating complex, paradoxical works that encompass their own contradictions. While his comedies leave a somber aftertaste, his forays into satire with a serious edge are gut-bustingly funny…In The Hunchback Variations Maher mocks academic examinations of the creative process even as he engages in a complicated deconstruction of creativity.” —Chicago Reader “Tantalizes with swirling bits about the nature of creativity, grief, the endless universe, the physical world, the theater…a thinking man’s vaudeville. You won’t soon forget it.” —Houston Press “Terrifically funny for even non-geniuses… I haven’t laughed this much at a show in an awfully long time.” —Applause Meter “Seriously crazed…acquires rueful resonance, even amid the resolute absurdity of it all.” —Houston Chronicle Named “One of the top five productions of the year” by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Praise for Mickle Maher’s An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on This His Final Evening: “A decade ago, the initial run of this diabolically clever monologue established the singular genius of playwright Mickle Maher, insouciantly infecting the Western canon with his dark brand of whimsy…(and) did we mention the play’s hilarious?” —Time Out Chicago “Intellectually spry and surprisingly funny…a fascinating piece of avant-garde Chicago brain candy.” Highly Recommended —Chicago Tribune “An Apology…quite simply put, is one of the most incomparable undertakings that has graced the stage… (a) complete masterpiece.” —Chicago Stage Review “It’s hard to miss Mickle Maher’s brilliance in this ingenious retooling of the Faust legend.” —Chicago Reader “One can see… not only Maher’s passionate engagements with language at diverse levels—from the rhetorical mastery of syntax and cadence to the semantic wizardry of words, their ability to conjure habitable worlds out of bare ice and air—but also two of the issues that drive Maher throughout his various theatrical follies. There is the idea of the impossible or meaningless project as not just an intellectual limit or an aesthetic curiosity, but an ethical necessity: a ‘life-duty.’ And there is the sense of inescapable loneliness heightened by the attempt to communicate, as though the fundamental ethical task is to make one’s own singularity intelligible and thereby transcend it—a task which in Maher’s universe seems inevitably doomed to failure.” —John Beer, The Point “Superb…miss (this play) at your peril.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Praise for Mickle Maher’s Song About Himself: “Nearly perfect… a world of ridiculous, ominous inadequacy.” —Chicago Reader “Wonderfully, exceedingly weird.” —Chicago Tribune “Subtle, elegiac.” —Houston Chronicle “A rich psychological and metaphysical landscape.” —Newcity “An engaging, resonant ode.” —Time Out Chicago Praise for Mickle Maher’s It Is Magic: “Hilarious tragedy.” —Chicago Reader “A harrowing, hilarious journey into the eldritch heart of the theatrical experience.” —Austin Arts WatchTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION/PREFACE 1. AN APOLOGY FOR THE COURSE AND OUTCOME OF CERTAIN EVENTS 2. DELIVERED BY DOCTOR JOHN FAUSTUS ON THIS HIS FINAL EVENING 3. THE HUNCHBACK VARIATIONS 4. SPIRITS TO ENFORCE 5. THERE IS A HAPPINESS THAT MORNING IS 6. SONG ABOUT HIMSELF 7. IT IS MAGIC ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Medieval Institute Publications Everyman and Its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc
Book SynopsisFaced with death's certainty-and the uncertainty of the time of its coming, particularly in a historical period of widespread plague and other afflictions-as well as the inevitability of the hereafter, what is one to do? Everyman speaks to this dilemma. . . . The protagonist is one who, because he has laid up treasures on earth, has been in a position to do good deeds, but he has been very lax about it and instead has pursued enjoyment and wealth, the latter hoarded instead of being shared with the poor and needy. . . . Now he must, as the medieval mystics knew, endure the solitariness of leaving behind all that has given him comfort in this world. . . . This facing page translation of this Continental play will be useful to all students of theater.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Everyman, and Its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc Explanatory Notes to Everyman Textual Notes to Everyman Appendix: The Golden Legend Bibliography
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Medieval Institute Publications The Roland and Otuel Romances and the
Book SynopsisThis edition contains four Middle English Charlemagne romances from the Otuel cycle: Roland and Vernagu, Otuel a Knight, Otuel and Roland, and Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain. A translation of the romances' source, the Anglo-French Otinel, is also included. The romances centre on conflicts between Frankish Christians and various Saracen groups, and deal with issues of racial and religious difference, conversion, and faith-based violence.Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction Select Bibliography Roland and Vernagu Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes Otuel a Knight Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes Otuel and Roland Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain Introduction Select Bibliography Text Notes The Anglo-French Otinel Introduction Select Bibliography Text and Translation Notes Glossary
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Medieval Institute Publications The Owl and the Nightingale and the English
Book SynopsisAn edition of the early Middle English verse sequence contained in the thirteenth-century Oxford Jesus College MS 29 (II) with accompanying translations in Modern English and scholarly introduction and apparatus. The sequence is varied in subject, with poems of religious exhortation set beside others of secular pragmatism. Included are: The Owl and the Nightingale, Poema Morale, The Proverbs of Alfred, Thomas of Hales’s Love Rune, The Eleven Pains of Hell, the prose Shires and Hundreds of England, the lengthy Passion of Jesus Christ in English, and twenty-one additional lyrics, most of them uniquely preserved in this manuscript. Made in the West Midlands, the Jesus 29 manuscript is the lengthiest all-English verse collection known to exist in the period between the Exeter Book and the Harley Lyrics.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations List General Introduction Oxford, Jesus College, MS 29 (II): Texts and Translations 1. The Passion of Jesus Christ in English 2. The Owl and the Nightingale 3. Poema Morale 4. The Saws of Saint Bede 5. The Woman of Samaria 6. Weal 7. Death’s Wither-Clench 8. An Orison to Our Lady 9. Will and Wit 10. The Annunciation 11. The Five Joys of Our Lady Saint Mary 12. When Holy Church Is Under Foot 13. Doomsday 14. Death 15. Ten Abuses 16. A Little Sooth Sermon 17. Antiphon of Saint Thomas the Martyr in English 18. On Serving Christ 19. Thomas of Hales, Love Rune 20. Song of the Annunciation 21. Fire and Ice 22. Signs of Death 23. Three Sorrowful Tidings 24. The Proverbs of Alfred 25. An Orison to Our Lord 26. A Homily on Sooth Love 27. The Shires and Hundreds of England 28. The Eleven Pains of Hell Explanatory Notes Textual Notes Index of First Lines Index of Proper Names Bibliography
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Counterpoint Mountains And Rivers Without End: Poem
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Soft Skull Press Path Of Totality
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Soft Skull Press Grocery Shopping With My Mother
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Jewish Lights Publishing Hafiz: The Mystic Poets
Book SynopsisDiscover How Hafiz's Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own Hafiz is known throughout the world as Persia’s greatest poet, with sales of his poems in Iran today only surpassed by those of the Qur’an itself. His probing and joyful verse speaks to people from all backgrounds who long to taste and feel divine love and experience harmony with all living things. This beautiful sampling of Hafiz’s works captures his deep spiritual understanding, offering a glimpse into the vision that has inspired people around the world for centuries. Considered by his contemporaries as an oracle and often referred to as "Tongue of the Hidden" and "Interpreter of Secrets," Hafiz followed Sufism’s inner path on a quest to discover the hidden meaning of the universe, and shares his experiences and desire for union with the Divine in symbolic language that borders on magical. Infused with the spirit of love and joy, this unique collection offers insight into Haiz’s spiritual philosophy and carefree mysticism that addresses the earthly beauty, pain, ecstasy and longing that define human nature, and the divine adoration that promises to set the spirit free. "Ambiguity is a major characteristic of Persian poetry, and Hafiz was one of the greatest masters of this artistic quality: each reader tends to see his or her own experiences reflected in the poems. As a result, it is usually unclear whether in a given verse he means actual wine or spiritual wine, a male or a female beloved, a human beloved or God, and so forth…. But after reading the same images over and over in ever-changing contexts, one gradually leaves behind the ordinary material world and enters into a realm in which everything symbolizes the beautiful qualities of the beloved, who ultimately is God and the source of Love." —from the Preface by Ibrahim Gamard, annotator and translator, Rumi and Islam: Selections from His Stories, Poems, and Discourses—Annotated & ExplainedTable of ContentsPreface by Ibrahim Gamard 1 Who Is Hafiz? 11 A Short Introduction to Hafiz's Mysticism 33 The Poems 45 Notes to the Poems 99 Notes 115 About the Translator 117 Index of Poems (by title) 119 Index of First Lines 121 Other Books in the Mystic Poets Series 123
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Trinity University Press,U.S. Texas Being
Book SynopsisTexas, Being: A State of Poems collects more than forty-five poems from a beautiful and brutal state. Some are about the music of their languages. Some speak to the dead, some to the sun, and others to omissions of history. One concerns a hedgehog cactus, and another a roller rink. From “Happy, Texas” to “Palestine, TX,” from seashores to skeletons to Selena, all are in one way or another about Texas, but good poems are always about more than one thing.Selected by Jenny Browne, 2017 poet laureate of Texas, these poems draw a picture of one of America’s vastly sublime yet most audaciously independent corners. In these diverse voices, the state is a lovely and painful contradiction of space and meaning. Texas is a place “where blind catfish cruise” and wild asters grow. It’s a frame of mind where Jenn
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Blue Light Press No Longer An Ingenue
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University of Tampa Press My Husband Would: Poems
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The Library of America Moliere: The Complete Richard Wilbur
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Modern Language Association of America Shakespeare's King Lear: A New Variorum Edition
Book SynopsisInaugurated in the 1860s, and the standard reference edition of Shakespeare's work, each volume of the New Variorum Shakespeare presents complete textual and critical histories of each line of the play, along with extensive essays on criticism, sources, stage history, and more.The New Variorum Editions are valuable resources for an international audience of scholars, students, directors, actors, and general readers. Overseen by three general editors and an MLA committee, the production of each edition is conducted by a team of scholars and researchers working over a number of years.This edition contains a text of the play, textual variants from all subsequent editions of the play, and commentary notes. Includes discussion of important early editions, date of composition, sources, language and style, structure, influences, analogues, criticism, themes, characters, stage productions, film adaptations, operatic adaptations, and music for the play.Trade ReviewThis volume is not only beautifully readable but an irresistible page-turner." - Laurie Maguire, TLS, April 2022
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Song of Roland
Book SynopsisSwift yet resonant, this masterful new verse translation conveys the immediacy, intimacy, and power of this greatest of Old French epic poems. John DuVal approaches the unadorned syntax of The Song of Roland in straightforward modern English, attuned to the nuance and detail of the narrative and the poetry of the original text.In his concise but thorough general Introduction, David Staines traces the origins of the poem and its reception in medieval society, discusses its content and its themes, and in clear, accessible prose illuminates the epic poem’s chivalric spirit.Footnotes provide glosses on events, characters, and medieval terms. Endnotes discuss editorial and translational issues. This edition also includes a selected bibliography, a map, and a glossary and index. An appendix provides the entire text of the Old French original.Trade ReviewThis translation is a substantial improvement over what is otherwise available. . . . The editorial remarks provide a healthy perspective on the religious chauvinism of the poem. . . . I appreciate having the Old French version included. The narrative is clear and engaging and it effectively captures the fast-paced intensity of the original. --Linda Marie Zaerr, Boise State UniversityThe true poetry of the most well-known French epic springs vividly to life here in an entirely new way. DuVal's unique translation captures the meter and assonance of the original at the same time that it conveys the breathless pace, as simple as it is complex, of one of the most moving tales of all time. One can hear—and feel—the singer of tales speaking to us today. I cannot wait to teach this text in the classroom. --Jody Enders, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsCONTENTS: Introduction; Bibliography; Translator's Introduction; Map; The Song of Roland; Glossary/Index; Appendix: La Chanson de Roland.
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Akasha Classics Sophist
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Kent State University Press I've Been Collecting This to Tell You
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Kent State University Press I Hear the World Sing (Sento cantare il mondo):
Book SynopsisShared joys and concerns across cultures and language, expressed in the poetry of children.When school children from Kent, Ohio and Florence, Italy, were invited to express their thoughts about "Where I'm From" in poetry, the connections that emerged between these students from different continents were remarkable. Their responses to this prompt—"lo vengo da" in Italian—demonstrate the underlying importance of home, families, the natural world, and the creative identities that children harbour within them.The 40 poems in I Hear the World Sing, printed in both English and Italian, presents these poems in three sections—"The Chirp of Little Birds," "Witness the River," and "I Write to Grow a World"—which explore and celebrate the commonalities between us. Anyone can be a poet, no matter the language one speaks or writes. And by presenting each poem in two languages, this collection emphasises how successfully poetry transcends both physical and linguistic boundaries, no matter the age of the poet.Originally composed in workshops facilitated by the Wick Poetry Center's Traveling Stanzas project and translated by students in Kent State University's Italian translation program, I Hear the World Sing is an invitation for students of poetry, of Italian, and readers of any age to reflect on language and how it shapes our lives.
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Bucknell University Press Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy
Book SynopsisMina Loy—poet, artist, exile, and luminary—was a prominent and admired figure in the art and literary circles of Paris, Florence, and New York in the early years of the twentieth century. But over time, she gradually receded from public consciousness and her poetry went out of print. As part of the movement to introduce the work of this cryptic poet to modern audiences, Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy provides new and detailed explications of Loy’s most redolent poems. This book helps readers gain a better understanding of the body of Loy’s work as a whole by offering compelling close readings that uncover the source materials that inspired Loy’s poetry, including modern artwork, Baedeker travel guides, and even long-forgotten cultural venues. Helpfully keyed to the contents of Loy’s Lost Lunar Baedeker, edited by Roger Conover, this book is an essential aid for new readers and scholars alike. Mina Loy forged a legacy worthy of serious consideration—through a practice best understood as salvage work, of reclaiming what has been so long obscured. Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy dives deep to bring hidden treasures to the surface.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Mina Loy: Her Life and Lifework An Aesthetic Invitation Part I: FUTURISM X FEMINISM: THE CIRCLE SQUARED (POEMS 1914–1920) Chapter 1: Women in Space and Time Part II: SONGS TO JOANNES (1917) Chapter 2: Pig Cupid and Psyche Part III: CORPSES AND GENIUSES (POEMS 1919–1930) Chapter 3: Portrait of the Poet as a Young Artist Chapter 4: Loy’s Coterie Chapter 5: Exilic Travels Part IV: COMPENSATIONS OF POVERTY Chapter 6: Urban Bricoleur Epilogopoeia: The Lost Lunar Baedeker Found Appendices Bibliography About the Author
£35.15
Michigan State University Press Coffin Honey
Book SynopsisIn Coffin Honey, his seventh book of poems, celebrated poet Todd Davis explores the many forms of violence we do to each other and to the other living beings with whom we share the planet. Here racism, climate collapse, and pandemic, as well as the very real threat of extinction—both personal and across ecosystems—are dramatized in intimate portraits of Rust-Belt Appalachia: a young boy who has been sexually assaulted struggles with dreams of revenge and the possible solace that nature might provide; a girl whose boyfriend has enlisted in the military faces pregnancy alone; and a bear named Ursus navigates the fecundity of the forest after his own mother’s death, literally crashing into the encroaching human world. Each poem in Coffin Honey seeks to illuminate beauty and suffering, the harrowing precipice we find ourselves walking nearer to in the twenty-first century. As with his past prize-winning volumes, Davis, whose work Orion Magazine likens to that of Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver, names the world with love and care, demonstrating what one reviewer describes as his knowledge of “Latin names, common names, habitats, and habits . . . steeped in the exactness of the earth and the science that unfolds in wildness.”
£21.32
Peppertree Press A Secret Love Affair of Emily Dickinson as
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Modern History Press U.P. Reader -- Volume #5: Bringing Upper Michigan
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£17.96
Golgotha Press, Inc. The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Plain and Simple
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